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Dawn is Currently Reading

Dawn is currently reading

Other Birds

by Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: favorite-authors, magical-realism, book-club-read, currently-reading

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read in November 2022

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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

by Michael J. Fox

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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

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Dawn’s Quotes

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

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“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

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“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

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